Financial Engineering Support Senior Expert, hybrid, Assistant Vice President

<p>About the role</p><p>As part of its middle office services, State Street maintains a multi-asset-class market risk engine used by both internal and external clients to produce sensitivities, historical simulation-based risk calculations, and factor-based risk calculations. Consumers of this output include a wide variety of asset managers and asset owners, using it for enterprise risk management, regulatory filings, and other portfolio and instrument-level analytics. To deliver this service, the Financial Engineering team in North America designs and assists in the implementation of valuation models, data ingestion and transformation processes, and analytics calculation methods.</p><p></p><p>Working with Client Services and Operations staff, The Financial Engineering Support Team serves as front-line support to recommend best practices, interpret results, troubleshoot unwanted behaviors, and correct errors in order to meet deliverables. This team has detailed knowledge of both models and data processes relevant to the end-to-end processing of client positions.</p><p></p><p>The leader of this team will both take responsibility for ensuring the team’s fulfilment of its daily duties as well as working with financial engineers, developers, and other product managers to increase automation, efficiency, and quality of results across Operations workflows.</p><p></p><p>This position is a hybrid role with 2 days in the office per week (days agreed with manager), which you can perform in our offices in Krakow (Centrum Biurowe Kazimierz) or Gdansk (Titanium Tower, Alchemia II). During the onboarding time it is important to us that you will be available fully in the office, what will help us to prepare you well to your work. Working hours: 10 AM - 6 PM.</p><p></p><h1>Your new role</h1><p></p><p>As a Financial Engineering Support Senior Expert you will:</p><ul><li><p>Research, spec, test, and document new data processes, enhancements to existing processes, and user interfaces to initiate and monitor them.</p></li><li><p>Work closely with the internal Market Data function to provide training, guidance, and recommendations on data sources, changes to existing market data, and new data required for risk modeling.</p></li><li><p>Provide training to Operations staff on the production of market risk analytics across the entire position lifecycle, from ingestion through enrichment to simulation and analytics output.</p></li><li><p>Monitor Operations and Market Data practices to identify need for process or platform improvements; work across functions to implement these changes.</p></li><li><p>Research, spec, and test model components as needed and where appropriate.</p></li></ul><p></p><p>The works have conceptual, creative and individual character. The effects of work is original vision of solutions, which are unique, individual intellectual creation. The works aims to acquiring knowledge and skills in order to develop new products, processes and services or to make significant improvements to existing products, processes and services. The activities have independent performance and they are largely original. The result of the work are, for example, macros, codes, tests, manual tests, test scenarios, scripts and stories.</p><p></p><h1>What we value</h1><p></p><p>Desired skills and competencies:</p><ul><li><p>Undergraduate or graduate coursework, or equivalent prior work experience, in areas relevant to quantitative finance</p></li><li><p>Industry experience of at least 5 years</p></li><li><p>Working knowledge of Python, C++ / C#, VBA, SQL</p></li><li><p>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</p></li><li><p>Team-focused contributor willing to both ask for and offer help across business functions</p></li><li><p>Comfort with basic concepts of arbitrage-free pricing theory</p></li><li><p>Comfort with basic market risk analytics</p></li></ul><p></p><h1>We offer</h1><ul><li><p>Permanent contract of employment from day one</p></li><li><p>Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off)</p></li><li><p>Gold medical package for employees and their families (partner and children)</p></li><li><p>Premium life insurance package and private pension plan</p></li><li><p>Employee savings plan</p></li><li><p>Multisport Card</p></li><li><p>Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs</p></li><li><p>Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice</p></li><li><p>Variety of well-being programs</p></li><li><p>Technical or leadership career pathway</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Are you the right candidate? Yes!</p><p>We truly believe in the power that comes from the diverse backgrounds and experiences our employees bring with them. Although each vacancy details what we are looking for, we don’t necessarily need you to fulfil all of them when applying. If you like change and innovation, seek to